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[OLD FRUIT CANS.]
A great many useful and ornamental articles can be made from old fruit cans with the exercise of a little ingenuity and patience. I have made glue-pots, water-bailers, bread-graters, etc., etc.
Fig. 1.
Fig. 1 represents a flower-pot holder made from an empty tomato can. The can is held over a fire until the soldering that fastens the opened or top end of the can melts, when it will be found that by giving the joint a sharp blow with a chisel or a table-knife it will drop off. After a little practice, all danger of unsoldering the side joint of the can is overcome. Strips of bark must now be cut about two inches in width, and the can dipped in hot asphalt. Apply the bark to the outside, filling the joints with moss, lichen, or other products of the woods. You will now have a pretty toy, which will hold a flower-pot; or, if you like, the earth itself may be put directly in the can. In the latter case you must, of course, punch holes in the bottom of your can, as in other flower-pots, so that there may be a circulation of air and water.
Fig. 2.